Midway reminder!

Hi blogworld

Well that just goes to show how jinxed this card is!  Not only did I not get it finished in time for the original post, I also completely forgot to post it for the mid-way reminder!!

So better late than never - it's now midway through the current 'Pretty in Pastels' challenge at The Cutie Pies and we've had some lovely entries, but we would still be thrilled to see more.  What you waiting for, pop on over and join in!

This is the card that I should've posted last week, if I'd been more organised!

Front shot:

Close up of image:

The backwards arty farty:

I used:

Digi Stamp:

Milk Coffee - Lisbeth on Swing

coloured with my Promarkers

Dies:

Memory Box - Corner Bow and Vintage Bird Cage

Nestie Square

Papers:

Stripes are soo old I don't know where I got them!

First Edition - Summer Breeze

Anything else?

Wild Orchid Crafts - Flowers

Create & Craft - Swirly sparkly corner thingys

 Thanks for looking and hope you get a chance to join in at The Cutie Pies.

Sarah

It's distressing...

and this time not only that Mr Mojo has gone on on his jollies.

Morning Blogworld

Well here we are again, Monday morning - can you believe how quickly the year is going?  Only a couple more months of this year left, then we are looking down the nose of 2013!!!  I'm still wondering where my summer has gone, let alone thinking about digging out that winter clobber.

So, the reason for the post is not to moan (though you'd be hard pressed to believe that!) but to say - yay it's Monday and a new challenge at The Cutie Pies and I wonder if you guessed the theme? No, really?  Well it's 'Distressing' and that should really only apply to your cards not yourselves ;-)

Our sponsors this fortnight are:

and, with a prize of 4 digis:

So here is my distressed card:
Front shot:

close up of image:

Yay - I got away from those kittens and the arty farty is back!!!

I used:

Digi stamp:

MilkCoffee - Lisbeth and balloons

coloured with my Pro and Flexmarkers

Dies:

Nestie ovals and scalloped ovals

Papers:

Glitz Design - Pretty in Pink

Anything else?

Craftwork cards - greeting

Ribbon, buttons (which I'm not sure about now!) and the little gem in her hair - from my stuff

That's me done then - sorry I've not been around much the last few days.  It's the start of the half-term and we have had Grandad visiting so busy, busy, busy!!

Hopefully see you all again soon,

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

In The Pink: Challenge #6 - Buttons and Bows

Sketch Saturday: Week #231 - I know I rotated the sketch but am hoping you can still see it OK?

The Squirrel and The Fox: Challenge #29 - use a ribbon

Windows....

Hello blogworld

Well that's been a few days since I was here hasn't it!  I wanted to say thank you for all the kind comments you left both about my last poor offering of a card and the fug I find myself in.

I think a lot of my dissatisfaction is down to state of my dining room (which is my crafting area), the fact we still have one kitten un-homed (and looking likely to stay un-homed for a long time!) and that there are lots of decisions to be made on the house front.  Not least of which is where do we start!  I do hope we are not the only people out there who have many more possessions than they ever thought they would have!  I think I can see a major, and by that I mean drastic, culling of my possessions (to include books and craft stuff!).

Anyway waffle, waffle, waffle!  Not the reason I'm here.

The proper reason is that there is a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin and this week the theme is 'through the window'.  Now you should've heard all the scratching of heads that went on over this theme!  My teamies have nailed it with wonderful examples - mine? Well, I'm still scratching.

So this week our sponsor is:

 

And our regular monthly sponsor is:

You want to scratch your heads too?  Well here it is:

Front view:

Arty farty - trying to show how I 3d'd the outer paper, trying to make a windowey type thingy - as at that point I was panicking that it wasn't windowey enough!

Do y'know I can't find the close up I took of the image.  I know I took one, but I just can't find it, I've probably deleted it!!

So, I used:

Digi stamp:

Milk n Coffee - Lisbeth and Mushroom house

coloured with my Promarkers

Dies:

Nestie

Paper:

Cosmo Cricket - Mini Deck: Pixie-Licious

Anything else?

3d gloss on the mushroom

fence die - freebie from Tracy at Dies to Die for

There we go, I'm sure once you see the examples from my teamies I'm sure you'll get the theme better. Then when you are there looking, why not pop in an entry - but please remember to stamp somewhere.

See you soon,

Sarah